OLYMPIC URBAN LEGEND: Athletes during the Ancient Greek Olympic Games were amateurs. Until the 1970s, competition in the Olympic Games was reserved for amateur athletes, which in this sense is ...

Greek actress Xanthi Georgiou, playing the role of the High Priestess, lights the torch during the lighting of the Olympic flame at Ancient Olympia site, birthplace of the ancient Olympics in ...

A team including the Greek government and Microsoft used thousands of images, as well as archaeological research, to reconstruct ancient Olympia. The Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports, together ...

Ancient Greece originated the Olympic Games. The Paris Olympics website outlines a bit of the history: The history of the Games goes back around 3,000 years, to the Peloponnese in Ancient Greece.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Wrestling is a really ancient sport. It has been documented in prehistoric cave paintings. There are literary allusions of wrestling matches in 13th century BC, when the ...

But by 393 A.D., with Greece firmly under Roman rule, Emperor Theodosius declared the Olympics a pagan festival and banned the games, according to the Hellenic Information Society.

Sports News 2024 Paris Olympics flame lit in ceremony at Ancient Olympia From the ancient stadium in Olympia, a relay of torchbearers will carry the flame along a 3,100-mile route through Greece ...

Greece leads the parade of nations at every edition of the Olympic Games, but do you know the history behind the tradition? Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio IX 🏀⚽️🥇 Club ...

At the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, a French judge admitted being pressured to vote for the Russian skaters in order to secure an advantage for France in the pairs ice dancing competition. In ...